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Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Mobile App | Writing PoetryAcrostic Poems
Learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word.

Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Recurring LessonActive Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.

Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp February 20Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Students do a journal entry about barriers that have been broken,such as age, race, and gender, that might impede them in the future, and how they can break through those barriers.

Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonA Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed ListeningThinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.

Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Podcast EpisodeAdults and Teens Reading Together
Tune in to hear about eight new novels that all focus in some way on teens and their complicated relationships with family members, peers, and the larger world.

Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | JournalA Failure of the Imagination
This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.

Classroom Resources | Grades 7 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp July 16African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.